Quora User Profile Scraper

Extract public profile data from any Quora user in bulk — display name, bio, credential, follower and following counts, profile photo, and Quora user ID — in a clean structured JSON output.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — just give it a Quora username or profile URL.
• No API key needed — Quora has no public API; this actor returns the same data the web app shows.
• Rich detail — display name, primary credential ("Quora CEO", "PhD in CS", etc.), follower and following counts, profile picture, and the internal uid you can use to cross-reference with other Quora records.
• Bulk input — pass a list of usernames or URLs in one run; one clean dataset row per profile.
• Automatic retries — transient failures retry with exponential backoff; profiles that genuinely don't exist surface as _error: "not_found" so you can triage failures.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of Quora usernames (e.g. Adam-DAngelo) or full profile URLs.
2. The actor fetches each profile page and reads the user record the same way Quora's web app does, then assembles a flat JSON record.
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
  "users": [
    "Adam-DAngelo",
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Balaji-Viswanathan-2"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["DATACENTER"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Description
users	array	List of Quora usernames or profile URLs to scrape. Both Adam-DAngelo and https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo are accepted.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Datacenter proxy works for most cases.

Output

Input: Adam-DAngelo

{
  "_input": "Adam-DAngelo",
  "_source": "S1-primary",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T10:24:08.187026+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo",
  "uid": 335,
  "id": "VXNlckAwOjMzNQ==",
  "name": "Adam D'Angelo",
  "username": "Adam-DAngelo",
  "bio": null,
  "credential": "Quora CEO",
  "credentialId": 70297,
  "followerCount": 545902,
  "followingCount": 699,
  "profileImageUrl": "https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-335-200-pdwsbcspdxxmgonnabhpqvynvuwyqigr.jpeg",
  "isNotable": false,
  "isDeceased": false,
  "isBusinessMigrated": false,
  "profileEditUrl": "/profile/Adam-DAngelo/edit",
  "showPremiumBadge": false
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The username or URL exactly as you supplied it. Use this to join results back to your input list.
_source	string	Internal tag for the path used to fetch the record. S1-primary means the fastest, richest path; values starting with S2- indicate a fallback was used.
_scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when the record was scraped.
url	string	Canonical Quora profile URL.
uid	integer	Quora's internal numeric user ID. Stable across name changes.
id	string	Quora's GraphQL-encoded user ID (base64).
name	string	Display name (e.g. "Adam D'Angelo").
username	string	URL slug for the profile (e.g. Adam-DAngelo).
bio	string	Free-text "About" section. null if the user didn't set one.
credential	string	Primary credential the user displays (e.g. "Quora CEO", "Software Engineer at Google").
credentialId	integer	Internal ID of the primary credential.
followerCount	integer	Number of users following this profile.
followingCount	integer	Number of users this profile follows.
profileImageUrl	string	URL of the profile picture (thumbnail size).
isNotable	boolean	true if Quora marks this profile as a notable account.
isDeceased	boolean	true if Quora has marked the profile as deceased.
isBusinessMigrated	boolean	true if this is a migrated business profile.
profileEditUrl	string	Relative path to the profile-edit page (only meaningful to the owner).
showPremiumBadge	boolean	true if the profile displays Quora's premium badge.

Error envelope

Profiles that don't exist or fail to fetch return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
  "_input": "this-user-does-not-exist-xyz",
  "_error": "not_found",
  "_errorDetail": "profile page returned 404",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T10:24:10.012345+00:00"
}

Filter on _error to triage failed rows.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $7.50 per 1,000 profiles. Each successful profile = 1 result. Errors (not-found, deactivated) are not billed.

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Browse the full catalog at apify.com/xtracto.

Notes

• Counters (followerCount, followingCount) are eventually-consistent and may lag the live network by a few minutes.
• Deactivated, banned, or never-existed profiles return {"_error": "not_found", "_input": "..."}.
• The internal uid is the most reliable identifier — usernames can change but uid does not.
• For large jobs (>500 profiles), enable Apify Proxy rotation to avoid per-IP rate limits.